Cemeteries (San Mateo County)

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Bourn Family Cemetery
Old Cañada Rd
Redwood City, CA 94062
GoogleMap

Records:

• Find-a-grave

Chinese Cemetery (aka Chinese Six Companies)
4650 Callan Blvd
Daly City, CA 94015
GoogleMap

Records:

• Find-a-grave

between Serramonte Blvd. and Hickey Blvd
Daly City, CA 94015
GoogleMap

Records:

• Find-a-grave

County Poorhouse & Farm
(accessible from Adelaide Way)
Belmont, CA 94002
GoogleMap

Records:

• L San Mateo County Poorhouse & Farm
  
• L Interment list

Cypress Lawn Memorial Park
1370 El Camino Real
Colma, CA 94014
GoogleMap

Records:

• Cypresslawn.com
  
• Cypresslawnheritagefoundation.com
  
• Find-a-grave
  
• Mausoleum photographs
  

Notes:

• Established 1892. Received 35,000 interments from Laurel Hill Cemetery, San Francisco.

Dennis Martin Cemetery

Records:

• The Dennis Martin Cemetery, by Guy Willer. Family History Library.

Notes:

• “located in the hills behind Stanford University, near Searsville Lake”

Eternal Home Cemetery
1051 El Camino Real
Colma, CA 94014
GoogleMap

Established 1901.
Records:

• Online Tombstone Database
  
• Find A Grave
  
• Interment.com
  

Evergreen Cemetery
San Mateo, CA 94401
GoogleMap

Records:

• San Mateo County Genealogical Society
  

Gan Hazikaron-Garden of Rememberance Jewish Cemetery
Skyline Memorial Park
Highway 92 at Skyline Blvd.
San Mateo, CA
GoogleMap

Records:

• Find-a-grave
  
• PTBE Cemetery-Gan Hazikaron
  

God's Acre
444 King's Mt Road
Woodside, CA
GoogleMap

Golden Gate National Cemetery
1300 Sneath Lane
San Bruno, CA 94066
GoogleMap

Records:

• U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
  
• CA Tombstone Transcription
  
• Interment.net
  
• Find-a-grave
  

Golden Hill Memorial Park (aka Golden Hill Chinese Cemetery)
2099 Hillside Blvd.
Colma, CA 94014
GoogleMap

Records:

• Find-a-grave
  

Notes:

• Established 1994.

Graveyard Hill Cemetery
948 Miramontes Street
Half Moon Bay, CA 94019
GoogleMap

Notes:

• Established 1857.

Greek Orthodox Memorial Park
1148 El Camino Real
Colma, CA 94014
GoogleMap

Records:

• Find-a-grave
  

Notes:

• Established 1935.

Greenlawn Memorial Park
1100 El Camino Real
Colma, CA 94014
GoogleMap

Records:

• Find A Grave

Notes:

• Established 1903. Received 26,000 interments from Odd Fellows Cemetery, San Francisco.

Harrington Cemetery (historic family cemetery) (aka Belmont City Cemetery )
Belmont, CA
GoogleMap

Records:

• Interment.com
  
• Find A Grave
  

Notes:

• “This cemetery is located on a hill overlooking Interstate 280 and Crystal Springs Reservoir to the west and the city of Belmont to the east…used between 1855 and 1859”

Hills of Eternity Memorial Park
Jewish Cemetery & Mausoleum
1301 El Camino Real
Colma, CA 94014
GoogleMap

Records:

• Hills of Eternity Memorial Park
• Find A Grave

Notes:

• Established 1889.

Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery
1500 Old Mission Road
Colma, CA 94014
GoogleMap

Records:

• Online database
  
• Online database (1887-2012)
  
• Find A Grave
  

Notes:

• Established 1887. Received 39,307 interments from Calvary Cross, San Francisco.

Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery
1880 Santa Cruz Ave
Menlo Park, CA 94025
GoogleMap

Records:

• L database (A-J) | L database (K-Z) (Includes names of the 24 moved from Saint Denis Cemetery. Information can be requested from the offices of the Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma in Colma.)
  
• Find A Grave
  
• Interment.net
  

Home of Peace Cemetery & Emanu-El Mausoleum
Jewish Cemetery
1299 El Camino Real
Colma, CA 94014
GoogleMap

Records:

• Find A Grave

Notes:

• Established 1889. Received 13,000 interments from Home of Peace, San Francisco.

Hoy Sun Memorial Chinese Cemetery
2101 Hillside Blvd
Colma, CA 94014
GoogleMap

Records:

• Find A Grave |

Notes:

• Established 1988.

Hoy Sun Ning Yung Cemetery
Longford Dr. (enter from westbound Hickey Blvd)
Daly City, 94015
Records kept at:
Hoy Sun Ning Yung Benevolent
40 Waverly Pl. #2
San Francisco, CA 94108
GoogleMap

Records:

• Find A Grave
  

Independent Order of Oddfellows Cemetery (I.O.O.F.)
Highway 92 (east of Highway One)
Half Moon Bay, CA 94019
GoogleMap

Records:

• L Tombstone Online Database
  
• Find-a-grave
  
• Interment.net
  

Italian Cemetery (Societa' Italiana di Mutua Beneficenza)
540 F Street
Colma, CA 94014
GoogleMap

Records:

• FamilySearch Indexed Records
• FamilySearch Images
• Find-a-grave

Notes:

• Established 1899. Received 8,000 interments from City Cemetery, San Francisco (A representative from this cemetery notes that the information about the City Cemetery is incorrect).

Japanese Benevolent Society-Jikeikai
1300 Hillside Blvd
Colma, CA 94014
Office: 179 Sutter St, San Francisco, CA 95115
GoogleMap

Records:

• Find A Grave

Notes:

• Established 1901. Received interments from Laurel Hill and Masonic Cemeteries, San Francisco.

Mount Hope Cemetery
Stage Road (near North Street)
Pescadero, CA 94060
(next to Saint Anthony's Cemetery )
GoogleMap

Records:

• Find A Grave |
  

Oakwood Community Cemetery (aka Convent of the Sacred Heart Cemetery)
140 Valparaiso Avenue
Atherton, CA 94027
GoogleMap

Records:

• Find A Grave
  
• San Mateo County Genealogical Society
  

Odd Fellows Cemetery Colma Blvd (between Home Depot and Best Buy)
Colma, CA 94014
GoogleMap

Records:

• FamilySearch

Notes:

• This is a mass burial site for many who were removed from Odd Fellows Cemetery in San Francisco. There are no individual headstones or markers. The area is covered with a flower nursery. A list of interred can be viewed at the Greenlawn Memorial Park office.

Olivet Memorial Park (aka Mount Olivet)
1601 Hillside Blvd
Colma, CA 94014
GoogleMap

Records:

• 1896 Newspaper
• Find A Grave

Notes:

• Established 1896.

Our Lady of Pillar (aka Nuestra Señora del Pillar Cemetery)
980 Miramonte
Half Moon Bay, CA 94019
GoogleMap

Records:

• LOur Lady of the Pillar Cemetery
  
• USGenWeb Archives
  
• Find A Grave
  
• Interment.net
  

Pilarcitos (Catholic) Cemetery
Main St. & Rt. 92
Half Moon Bay, CA 94019
GoogleMap

Records:

• L Pilarcitos Cemetery, Tombstone Transcriptions
• Find A Grave
• Interment.net

Notes:

• Established 1820, Closed to burials in 1923.

Purissima Cemetery
Verde Road (just east of Cabrilla Hwy)
Half Moon Bay, CA
GoogleMap

Records:

• L Purissima Cemetery, Tombstone Transcriptions
  
• Pictures
  
• Find A Grave
  
• Interment.net
  

Russian Sectarian Cemetery
80 Longford Drive
Colma, CA
GoogleMap

Records:

• L Russian Sectarian Cemetery Tombstone Transcriptions
• Russian Sectarian Cemetery
• Find A Grave

Notes:

• Established in 1932.

Saint Anthony's Cemetery
Stage Road (near North Street)
Pescadero, CA 94060
(next to Mount Hope Cemetery )
GoogleMap

Records:

• Find A Grave

Saint Denis Cemetery (historic) (aka St. Denis Cemetery)
Sand Hill Road
Menlo Park, CA

Larry Witham has determined the coordinates of this cemetery was at GoogleMap.

Records:

• St. Denis Parish History

Notes:

• Dedicated in 1855. In 1953, 24 of the original 174 graves were found and relocated to Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, Menlo Park according to St. Denis Parish history.

Saint John's Cemetery (aka St. John's Cemetery)
910 Oregon Ave
San Mateo, CA 94402
GoogleMap

Records:

• Tombstone Transcriptions (A-K) | Tombstone Transcriptions (L-Z)
  
• Find A Grave
  
• Interment.net
  
• USGenWeb Archives
  
• FamilySearch 1
• FamilySearch 2

Salem Memorial Park & Garden (Jewish)
1711 El Camino Real
Colma, CA 94014
GoogleMap

Records:

• Find A Grave

Notes:

• Established 1891. Received 696 interments from City Cemetery, San Francisco.

Serbian Cemetery
1801 Hillside Blvd
Colma, CA 94014
GoogleMap

Records:

• Find A Grave

Notes:

• Established 1901. Received interments from Laurel Hill Cemetery, San Francisco.

Skylawn Memorial Park
Includes: Bai Ling Yuan, Jardines Del Recuerdo Hispanic Cemetery, Northern California Korean, and Santo Nino Filipino-American Cemetery.
Skyline Blvd. & Highway 92
San Mateo, CA 94401
GoogleMap

Records:

• Gan Hazikeron (Jewish) section pictures
• Find A Grave

Sunset View Cemetery
Colma, CA
GoogleMap

Records:

• Cemetery Registers (images)
• Sunset View Cemetery: Cemetery for the Paupers and Indigent of San Francisco
• FamilySearch
• Find A Grave

Notes:

• Established 1907 and closed in 1951. “During the 1960’s the cemetery was incorporated into an 18‐hole golf course … The cemetery spent nearly two decades under the fairways of Cypress Golf course. It is now an unmarked block south of the clubhouse with no headstones or monuments.” - Russell R. Brabec, 2015.

Tung Sen Cemetery
Longford Dr. (enter from westbound Hickey Blvd)
Daly City, 94015
GoogleMap

Records:

• Find A Grave

Union Cemetery
316 Woodside Rd. (at El Camino Real)
Redwood City, CA 94061
GoogleMap

Records:

• Extract from Union City Cemetery Burial Register
• Historic Union Cemetery
• Historic Union Cemetery Pioneers
• Union Cemetery-Partial list of Headstone Transcriptions
• Historic Union Cemetery Association
• Find A Grave
• FamilySearch 1
• FamilySearch 2

Notes:

• Includes burials from 1859 to 1963. California State Historical Landmark No.816. National Register of Historic Places No. 83001237.

West Union Cemetery
“some 5 miles north of Woodside”
San Mateo County, CA

Notes:

• “Years ago a little cemetery was located at West Union some fives miles north of Woodside…Only one body has been removed from the cemetery…Alexander MacDonald…The land has come into possession of some Italians who desire to use the property as part of a vineyard.”- San Mateo County Times Gazette , 11 December 1886 [see also San Mateo County Times Gazette, 8 March 1885].

Woodlawn Memorial Park
1000 El Camino Real
Colma, CA 94014
GoogleMap

Records:

• Find A Grave

Notes:

• Established 1904. Received interments from Masonic Cemetery, San Francisco.